Hola, Jorge. Tienes los dones de la concreción y de la concisión, de los que yo carezco y por lo que los admiro todavía más. Has resumido esta fantástica obra de forma excelente. Acabo de leer "Edipo rey" y ciertamente el tema de los vaticinios es un vínculo muy estrecho entre ambas. ¡Saludos, amigo!
¡Hola, Gonzalo! 😃 Mil gracias por la visita y por tus palabras. Tengo muy buenos recuerdos de mi lectura de Sófocles, hace mucho tiempo. Si hubiese leído Edipo rey hace poco, seguramente me hubiese ido por las ramas con las comparaciones y este video hubiese resultado más extenso y caótico. 😄 A ver con qué clásico de la literatura española sigo esta serie. Hay tantas opciones... Fue interesante volver a Calderón, y esta vez en inglés, porque fue como leer otro autor, otra obra (en cierto sentido, así es), y al mismo tiempo como regresar a mis días de escuela secundaria en Buenos Aires, cuando leímos La vida es sueño y quedé fascinado, incluso a esa edad en la que lo que más hacía era navegar por una cosa nueva llamada internet y escuchar a Metallica, Megadeth, y Iron Maiden. Pero en fin. Te agradezco, nuevamente, amigo; ¡muchos saludos, y feliz lectura!
I would add that it's also key to attend a performance of this play in a theater. I had the fortune to see the unparalleled acting of Blanca Portillo in Buenos Aires many years ago, and even today, when I read passages of the play, I still see her in the role of Segismund.
It must have been an amazing experience, Leandro! 😃 I never had the opportunity to see it. We read it in "cuarto año," back in the "secundaria," and I have great memories of us reading the text out loud in class. But that's the thing with plays: I love to read them, but they are meant to be seen, and mostly, heard. Thank you so much for watching and commenting, my friend, and have a wonderful weekend!
After months of watching, I found a fault with this channel : it always makes me wish I were young enough to learn Spanish :) I did read that Calderon play, one Summer, decades ago. I remember it was assigned to my sister to study. Can’t remember the book to talk about it, unfortunately, it’s been too long :)
It's never too late, my friend! 😃 I want to study French again. I took a course in college titled "French for Reading," and a few years later I took a beginner's class that was being offered for free at a community learning center near my house. Right at that time, I got a job, so I had to abandon the course, and I always felt sad about that. I will take up the study of French again someday. I do wonder what Calderón sounds like in French. Of course, in theory it should be less of a challenge to translate him into French than into English, but at the end of the day, it all depends on the translator. Tomorrow: video on a French author that I love. Hope you enjoy it, my friend. Have a wonderful week!
I was 11 or 12 when I my mum dragged me to the theatre to see the play inspired mainly by The Great Theatre of the World. It was a dark and rainy December evening so I was not very enthusiastic, but - fortunately - I did go. It was an experimental theatre, the audience were sitting on the floor in the centre of the big dark room, and around us were wooden carriages, the headlights shed light on one car and then on another, and another still, bringing out from the dark the characters trying to play their roles in the world the best they could. One of them was repeating "even our dreams are dreams", so it must have been Segismundo, brought into the spectacle from Life is a Dream. It was all imposibble to grasp intellectually by a child I was back then, but I experienced some kind of revelation deeper than rational understanding - I felt like the otherwise hidden mechanics of human existence were revealed for me, even if only for a blink of the eye. And then we went out of the theatre and the whole world was changed, also literally, because in the meantime the frost changed the moist on trees and roads into silvery rime, and it started to snow. I got fever later that evening, but not from a cold or an ilness, but beacuse of the beauty of all that happened. And you have just brought that to me again, and in a moment when I really need this kind of a reminder. BTW we really live in miraculous times, its just so great that I can listen to you speaking of literature and reach to you with my thanks from the other side of the world. I think Calderon would have liked the idea ;)
Thank you so much, my friend, for watching and for sharing your experience, so beautifully described too! 😃 It sounds like a truly transcendent experience, what theatre should always be like. Calderón would definitely be happy about the connections we establish through these great works of literature. I wish I get the chance to see one of his plays in performance someday. Thanks again for this wonderful reflection, and have a fantastic day!
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Hola, Jorge. Tienes los dones de la concreción y de la concisión, de los que yo carezco y por lo que los admiro todavía más. Has resumido esta fantástica obra de forma excelente. Acabo de leer "Edipo rey" y ciertamente el tema de los vaticinios es un vínculo muy estrecho entre ambas. ¡Saludos, amigo!
¡Hola, Gonzalo! 😃 Mil gracias por la visita y por tus palabras. Tengo muy buenos recuerdos de mi lectura de Sófocles, hace mucho tiempo. Si hubiese leído Edipo rey hace poco, seguramente me hubiese ido por las ramas con las comparaciones y este video hubiese resultado más extenso y caótico. 😄 A ver con qué clásico de la literatura española sigo esta serie. Hay tantas opciones... Fue interesante volver a Calderón, y esta vez en inglés, porque fue como leer otro autor, otra obra (en cierto sentido, así es), y al mismo tiempo como regresar a mis días de escuela secundaria en Buenos Aires, cuando leímos La vida es sueño y quedé fascinado, incluso a esa edad en la que lo que más hacía era navegar por una cosa nueva llamada internet y escuchar a Metallica, Megadeth, y Iron Maiden. Pero en fin. Te agradezco, nuevamente, amigo; ¡muchos saludos, y feliz lectura!
@@JorgesCorner Qué elección tan ardua, pero seguro que, elijas el clásico español que elijas, será otro vídeo interesante sobre él. ¡Felices lecturas!
I would add that it's also key to attend a performance of this play in a theater. I had the fortune to see the unparalleled acting of Blanca Portillo in Buenos Aires many years ago, and even today, when I read passages of the play, I still see her in the role of Segismund.
It must have been an amazing experience, Leandro! 😃 I never had the opportunity to see it. We read it in "cuarto año," back in the "secundaria," and I have great memories of us reading the text out loud in class. But that's the thing with plays: I love to read them, but they are meant to be seen, and mostly, heard. Thank you so much for watching and commenting, my friend, and have a wonderful weekend!
After months of watching, I found a fault with this channel : it always makes me wish I were young enough to learn Spanish :)
I did read that Calderon play, one Summer, decades ago. I remember it was assigned to my sister to study. Can’t remember the book to talk about it, unfortunately, it’s been too long :)
It's never too late, my friend! 😃 I want to study French again. I took a course in college titled "French for Reading," and a few years later I took a beginner's class that was being offered for free at a community learning center near my house. Right at that time, I got a job, so I had to abandon the course, and I always felt sad about that. I will take up the study of French again someday.
I do wonder what Calderón sounds like in French. Of course, in theory it should be less of a challenge to translate him into French than into English, but at the end of the day, it all depends on the translator.
Tomorrow: video on a French author that I love. Hope you enjoy it, my friend. Have a wonderful week!
Muchas gracias.
¡Mil gracias a vos por la visita! ¡Muchos saludos! 😃
I was 11 or 12 when I my mum dragged me to the theatre to see the play inspired mainly by The Great Theatre of the World. It was a dark and rainy December evening so I was not very enthusiastic, but - fortunately - I did go. It was an experimental theatre, the audience were sitting on the floor in the centre of the big dark room, and around us were wooden carriages, the headlights shed light on one car and then on another, and another still, bringing out from the dark the characters trying to play their roles in the world the best they could. One of them was repeating "even our dreams are dreams", so it must have been Segismundo, brought into the spectacle from Life is a Dream. It was all imposibble to grasp intellectually by a child I was back then, but I experienced some kind of revelation deeper than rational understanding - I felt like the otherwise hidden mechanics of human existence were revealed for me, even if only for a blink of the eye. And then we went out of the theatre and the whole world was changed, also literally, because in the meantime the frost changed the moist on trees and roads into silvery rime, and it started to snow. I got fever later that evening, but not from a cold or an ilness, but beacuse of the beauty of all that happened. And you have just brought that to me again, and in a moment when I really need this kind of a reminder. BTW we really live in miraculous times, its just so great that I can listen to you speaking of literature and reach to you with my thanks from the other side of the world. I think Calderon would have liked the idea ;)
Thank you so much, my friend, for watching and for sharing your experience, so beautifully described too! 😃 It sounds like a truly transcendent experience, what theatre should always be like. Calderón would definitely be happy about the connections we establish through these great works of literature. I wish I get the chance to see one of his plays in performance someday. Thanks again for this wonderful reflection, and have a fantastic day!
New greetings 🎉 from Bonn, Germany 🇩🇪
Greetings, Hans-Georg! 😃🇩🇪 How's it going, my friend? Hope you enjoy the video. Das Leben ist ein Traum!